Just call her Gene Simmons

This is how Brynn looks most of the time... we've determined she got her freakishly long tongue from me, but I don't know why she likes to have it hanging out 24/7 - hopefully when she gets some teeth it will deter this habit!

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful first Christmas with Brynn. Grandad, Grandma and Great-Great Aunt Jan all came over to our house for a Christmas brunch and dinner. Brynn got a huge mountain of presents, and seemed to enjoy helping to open two of them. It was right during her usual morning nap time though, so she fell sound asleep and left Dwayne and me to open the rest for her.

I got Dwayne a Canon Rebel as his gift, so between Dad, Grandad and Grandma, we got a lot of pictures.

Christmas is fun!


Back from my nap and ready to see what I got...


Jan, that looks fun, can I have it?


Christmas table complete with salt dough ornaments of Brynn's handprint


And I made our Christmas dessert tradition, Buche de Noel (usually left to my Aunt Susie or cousin Valerie but we were on our own this year)


Merry Christmas!

Santa came early

Gammy sent a big box of Christmas presents for Brynn a few days before Christmas, and she couldn't wait to open them so we let her unwrap them early. Or something like that.

She got some cute clothes, a couple Baby Einstein DVDs, and some fun toys...below she is checking out one of them. Right after this picture I had to rescue the green "cookie" from Bailey's teeth - we're going to have to keep a really close eye on him now that Brynn's getting more little toys!

Blizzard of 2009

Usually we don't get big snows this early in winter in Maryland, but this weekend we got almost two feet of snow! Dwayne had to work Friday night when the storm started, so Brynn and I went over to Grandma and Grandad Pryor's house for the weekend so we wouldn't be snowed in by ourselves (and it was a good thing, because our heater ended up having a problem!)

I bundled Brynn up in a snowsuit and took her out in it for just a few minutes to see the snow.

Asleep standing up

Yesterday Brynn was happily jumping in her jumperoo so I left her in there while I got in the shower. When I came back out she was fast asleep in there!

Funny puppy

Nothing makes Brynn laugh harder than Bailey -

7 Months Old

Look at the long hair Brynn is getting in the front! I couldn't find the tape measure so didn't get a length this month.

* Brynn is finally starting to be able to pick up "puffs" and put them in her mouth (though it is still sporadic)
* She is great at eating other foods and opens her mouth like a little bird when she sees a spoon coming
* She loves to prop herself all the way up on her arms, and can kind of use them to scootch around - she'll be on her playmat while I'm on the computer and I'll turn around and she'll be facing the opposite direction and be a foot farther away
* No teeth yet, but I think they're very close - I can feel two sharp points under her gums!
* She's good at entertaining herself and will sit on a blanket and play with her toys for as long as half an hour!

Getting ready for Christmas

Brynn and I have both been sick for an entire week - she's had a runny/stuffy nose, and I've had some kind of fever, sore throat, stuffy nose thing.

So, it's a good thing I decorated for the whole house for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving! Even though she is still too little too understand, I am really looking forward to our first Christmas with Brynn.